GNU is growing, and we need your help

This year, the GNU System celebrated its thirtieth anniversary. We're asking free software supporters to donate $30 to further GNU's development.

The GNU System is more than a collection of software components;
it's a philosophy, a social movement. The ideas Richard Stallman
articulated in the GNU Manifesto spawned some of the most
important ideas of our time: copyleft and free culture. It is
vital that we continue to develop the ideas in the GNU Manifesto
and apply them to our rapidly changing relationship to
technology. In a world where our computing freedoms, privacy, and
security are eroding rapidly, Richard Stallman and the Free
Software Foundation will continue to demand better.

Building on GNU's mission means expanding our focus to protect
users of networked computers. This includes prioritizing the
development of replacements for Service as a Software
Substitute (SaaSS), as well as encryption and privacy
protecting software. GNU is going to need more infrastructure,
support, and coordination to be successful at this new goal.

Free software developers all over the world rely on GNU's
infrastructure to build software that protects user freedom both
online and offline. As the fiscal sponsor of GNU, the FSF
provides this scaffolding, everything from maintaining server
space for developers on Savannah, to hosting https://ftp.gnu.org, which
provides bandwidth for GNU downloads. All of these developer
tools are run with entirely free software. FSF staff and
volunteers also assist GNU projects with fundraising, promotion.
and licensing, and enforce the GPL on their behalf.

GNU started as a way to guarantee user control over the software
running on their local machine. But now, that's no longer
enough. In an always-on networked world, machines elsewhere pose
just as much of a threat to user freedom, even if we have
complete control over what is sitting in front of us. GNU needs
to -- and is -- evolving to meet this challenge.

As the GNU system turns thirty, free software and its philosophy
are more relevant than ever, but there is still work to be done.